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On April 29, Ripple’s Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz brought to public awareness that YouTube decided to suspend his active channel. All other crypto channels are facing uncertain times as YouTube is determinedly following the plan to remove all content violating community rules.

Bitcoin has broken the $8,300 line, and this seems to have triggered strong bullish sentiment. The community anticipates its further growth.

All the top 30 top cryptocurrencies are lighting red indicating a sharp decline in the altcoin market, and this is not good news to the digital currency community. Only 7 cryptocurrencies out of 100 tokens are in green. Bitcoin (BTC) is struggling to hit and surpass the $7,000 mark.

The world’s first licensed Bitcoin-led casino operator, Bitcasino, has yet again expanded its ecosystem by adding full support for Ripple’s native currency, XRP, allowing its community of users to benefit from XRP’s fast transactions and lower fee structure.

A weighty Bitcoin (BTC) transaction was conducted on April 10, which has caught the attention of digital asset whale watchers and the entire crypto asset community at large. A BTC address recently moved around 146,500 BTC (worth approx. $1.1 bln at the time of transaction) in a single transaction.

Binance announced the acquisition of CoinMarketCap which will now officially become its daughter company. Although CoinMarketCap has claimed to remain independent, the community anticipates there might be changes in its operation.

For the past few years, YouTube has had a policy of banning and even deleting channels promoting, analyzing, or talking about bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. While the platform itself states they are trying to protect their users against scams, some community members say it much resembles ordinary censorship.

As COVID-19 is raging over the entire planet and people are forced to isolate themselves in order not to catch the disease or contaminate others, the issue of communication and socialization becomes more and more urgent.

The Dutch Red Cross now accepts bitcoin and other cryptocurrency donations to combat the consequences of COVID-19. This move was probably caused by the need to increase the amounts of donated funds to boost research.